Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline
by Josh Taylor Technology reporter from Technology | The Guardian on (#70ZPF)
AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applications
Amazon has revealed the cause of this week's hours-long AWS outage, which took everything from Signal to smart beds offline, was a bug in automation software that had widespread consequences.
In a lengthy outline of the cause of the outage published on Thursday, AWS revealed a cascading set of events brought down thousands of sites and applications that host their services with the company.
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